Responsible Packaging
Naked Is Nice
It’s very easy when it comes to packaging to sound puritanical but here at LUSH, while we really love ribbons, bows and bells, we prefer to spend our money on top quality ingredients instead. Our greatest love is to invent products with no packaging at all. You can buy about 70% of our products naked, including bath bombs, shampoo bars, bubble bars, massage bars, body butters and solid facial cleansers.
Save When You Go Solid
Solid products last longer and weigh less than bottled liquids which take more energy to transport. For example, one truckload of
LUSH solid shampoo bars is enough for about 800,000 washes. It would take 15 truckloads of liquid shampoo to do the same job.
Consider this:
If 1 in 5 people in the US switched from liquid shampoo to solid, about 22 million plastic
bottles would be saved from the landfill. On top of this, 6 million tonnes of preserved
shampoo would be prevented from entering the environment.
And then watch this:
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Interview With LUSH UK
Environmental Officer
Ruth Andrade.
An overview of some of our business practises and a bit of history behind LUSH’s first Environmental Officer as well as our goals for the future. |
Less Is Best
When we can’t eliminate it completely, we look for the simplest packaging to do the job and use
post-consumer recycled, recyclable and biodegradable materials whenever possible.
The total recycled content in all LUSH packaging is about 89% (including paper bags, aluminium
tins, gift wrap, ribbons, boxes, tags and inserts). That means that for every ton of material bought
by LUSH, 900kg come from recycled sources.
- Our pots and bottles are made with 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic, saving about 65 tons of CO2 and 90 tonnes of virgin plastic, or 800 barrels of oil, each year. Visit our Customer Forum for fun ways to reuse your LUSH pots.
- Our carrier bags are made with 100% post-consumer recycled paper, saving 100 tonnes of CO2 each year. They’re now 2 grams lighter too which reduces emissions even more.
- We use biodegradable plastic bags and eco-friendly packing tape to protect products for shipment. Our packing tape is fully recyclable, tamperproof, tamper-evident, and is stronger per square inch than polypropylene (the old plastic stuff).
- Our gifts are lovingly wrapped with recycled paper and protected using shredded wood or recycled shredded paper, both of which are 100% biodegradable.